Show date picker with month and year only for lollipop 5.0 in android

Question

Show date picker with month and year only for lollipop 5.0 in android, it can be done in lower versions but how can i do it for android 5.0.

Answer 1

This can be done by setting your DatePicker to spinner mode and getting the Spinner for Day and hiding it programmatically.

Here is the XML (dialog_date_picker.xml):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:padding="8dp"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <DatePicker
        android:id="@+id/date_picker"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:calendarViewShown="false"
        android:datePickerMode="spinner"
        android:layout_weight="4"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/date_time_set"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:text="Set"
        android:layout_height="0dp" />

</LinearLayout>

Here is the code to do it.

private Calendar mCalendar;
...

mCalendar = Calendar.getInstance();

final View dialogView = View.inflate(this, R.layout.dialog_date_picker, null);
final AlertDialog alertDialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(this).create();

DatePicker datePicker = (DatePicker) dialogView.findViewById(R.id.date_picker);

datePicker.init(mCalendar.get(Calendar.YEAR),mCalendar.get(Calendar.MONTH),mCalendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH),null);


LinearLayout ll = (LinearLayout)datePicker.getChildAt(0);
LinearLayout ll2 = (LinearLayout)ll.getChildAt(0);
ll2.getChildAt(0).setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);

dialogView.findViewById(R.id.date_time_set).setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener()
{
  @Override
  public void onClick(View view)
  {    
    DatePicker datePicker = (DatePicker) dialogView.findViewById(R.id.date_picker);

    mCalendar = new GregorianCalendar(datePicker.getYear(),
    datePicker.getMonth(),
    datePicker.getDayOfMonth());

    alertDialog.dismiss();
    }
});